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tombarnfield

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Original poster
Sep 21, 2011
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Hi guys,

I'm really at my wits end here with this problem, so I thought I would give you guys a try - I've seen a lot of good advice on this forum before!

I'm a DJ so I download a large amount of music, but around 3 days ago, when downloading a track via Chrome (from sites such as mediafire and zippyshare), the download would halt after roughly a minute. The download bar would freeze and the 'eta' would go up minute by minute.

After changing my DNS settings and adding servers '4.2.2.2' and '4.2.2.1' (as seen on here), I tried Firefox - and it worked fine until the next day. The downloads on Firefox now halt after about a minute also.

I've tried my housemates' laptops and all downloads work fine, so I'm assuming it's something with this Mac. It's be great if I could get some help!!


Connection details:
Virgin Media Broadband (upto 30mb) - wireless connection.
Download speeds av. at 3440Kbps - but when calculating, the download speed varied massively from around 400Kbps to 8000kbps?

Mac details:
MacBook
Mac OS X
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2.5GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
 
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